---- On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:08:44 -0500 Jack Hill <[email protected]> wrote
----
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2020, Raghav Gururajan wrote:
>
> >> so I removed gnome-initial-setup from the propagated-inputs with the
> >> following patch, and, indeed,
> >> that resolved the problem with gdm on my system.
> >
> > That's strange. Both our system share similar configuration. But for me
> > gdm works fine with gnome-initial-setup being present. This is
> > confusing.
>
> Indeed, my system does have a really slow disk, so it would not surprise
> me if that contributed to it. Of course that shouldn't matter, but that's
> the only thing I can think it. It would be nice to hear if sirgazil can
> reproduce the fix since I think they were having the same problem on their
> computer.
Was the patch already applied? Because I just pulled, reconfigured and I have
the same problem: After a message like this
Jan 27 14:24:57 localhost dbus-daemon[446]: [system] Failed to activate service
'org.freedesktop.Accounts': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)
I only see a flashing caret that makes me think something is going to happen
next, but after waiting for more than five minutes, nothing happens. If I go to
TTY2, for example, I can log in and "sudo herd restart xorg-server"; then,
after a few seconds, GDM is ready in TTY7, and I can log in to the desktop.
For what is worth, my computer has a HDD. I also see this message in
/var/log/debug:
Jan 27 14:24:57 localhost gdm: Failed to contact accountsservice: Error calling
StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.Accounts: Timeout was reached
My current Guix:
$ LANG=C guix describe
Generation 11 Jan 27 2020 14:18:01 (current)
guix fcb510c
repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
branch: master
commit: fcb510c541e83291ea6682cba87020a913c64914
